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Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it::"They were like, 'You can't be serious.' They didn't want to have anything to do with it," Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I thought he was always the only engineer tho. This implies he does not do his own designs. Very sus. /s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was supposed to be sarcasm but I guess it didn’t translate well via text. I’ll add the /s, sorry :)

(I am an engineer, so this lie by him has always irked me)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's not the designer, either, that's the sad part... He just chose between designs others created.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He's a designer the way Nigel Tuffnel designed the Stonehenge set piece on a napkin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

are you disabled